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• Monday, March 31, 2008 07:25 AM

  @maureenodonnell

  maureenodonnell: "John Kerry was being interviewed on South Coast Today.Com (HTP:/www.YouTube.com/watch?v..)"

  Wait -- is that your idea of providing people with a link? You do realize that link is, ummm, incomplete?

  maureen: "This expression "taken out of context" seems to be a favourite in the English-speaking world..."

  And yet I used it accurately.

  maureenodonnell: "The context in which John Kerry was speaking was Obama's "cachet" in the Muslim world, as Kerry perceived it, because he is "a black man" (direct quote)."

  You're really jumping on something that is not worthy of criticism. Kerry's statement is correct and supported by independent surveys. It is likely that some of it has to do with Obama being a darker-skinned person.

  maureen: "Despite your thinly-veiled hostility, Xrandadu Hutman, the whole world has an interest in the American election in an unprecedented way, for obvious reasons."

  My hostility is not veiled. Believe me, it is not directed at you personally, it is directed at what I see as the carelessness of your communication here. You've brought in a subject out of the blue (John Kerry) and referred to a video (without providing us a helpful link) in which you misquote and oversimplify somebody's statements (without actually providing them), and then level prolonged criticism at him (most of which seems to be half-baked), all the while never telling us what your point is (do you think Obama's ethnic background is an asset or not?). Sure, you can have an opinion, but I'd like to have a better sense how you arrived at it.

  —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters
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